History of the medicinal marijuana
The marijuana has thousands of possible medicine uses. The marijuana (more specifically estracto of cannabis) was legal like medicine until 1937, and it was sold as a tonic for the nerves - but the humanity has used cannabis medicines from long ago. The marijuana appears in almost all medical books written by students in the antiquity. Usually it is classified to him between best medicines, calls `panaceas’, a word that means `all cures’. The list of diseases against which it is possible to be used includes: multiple sclerosis, treatment of cancer, AIDS (and treatment of the AIDS), glaucoma, depression, epilepsy, migraña, asthma, pruritis, esclerodoma, severe pains, and distonia. This list does not consider all the other diseases that can be cured with medicine done with marijuana, solely includes those that people cure nowadays smoking or eating the marijuana.
In the marijuana it has more than 60 medicinal substances. It is relatively easy to extract them to do meals or brevages, or some type of lotion using butter, oil or alcohol. One of those substances, canabinol, could be useful against the insomnia. Another canabidiólico acid call is a powerful disinfectant. Marijuana dissolved in alcohol has helped many to fight diseases of the skin like herpes. The leaves have been used as bandages and a relajante tea with the stems of hemp has taken place.
The use commonest nowadays is for fighting nauseas and the vomit. The power to eat either is one of the important things the more, and marks to the difference between the life and the death, for patients with cancer dealt with chemotherapy or patients with AIDS dealt with AZT or Foscavir. These patients have found that the marijuana is so effective, that many, still knowing that is illegal, have formed groups or clubs to obtain it more easily. In California, some municipalities have decided to ignore these groups and they let them operate freely.
The Glaucoma is the second more important cause of blindness, caused by one uncontrolled pressure in the eye. The marijuana serves to maintain loss that pressure and thus it avoids that the person is blinds. The multiple sclerosis is a disease in which the own immunological system attacks the cells of the nerves, being he is espasmos and muchosotros problems. The marijuana not only avoids the espasmos, but that tambén could avoid that the disease worsens.
